A Compartmented Ceiling with Allegories and Myths
late 1580s
Artist, Venetian, 1556 - 1640
Artwork overview
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Medium
pen and brown ink over light black chalk and heavy black chalk (laid on eighteenth-century Venetian album sheet)
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Credit Line
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Dimensions
overall: 35.5 × 27.3 cm (14 × 10 3/4 in.)
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Accession
1999.63.6
Artwork history & notes
Provenance
Janos Scholz [1906-1993], New York; Philip Leroux, London; Lodewijk Houthakker [1926-2003] (Lugt undescribed [hand holding a pen]), Amsterdam; (Hazlitt, Gooden & Fox, London, 1992); Jak Katalan, New York, 1992; (Paul Prouté S. A., Paris, by 1999); purchased 1999 by NGA.
Associated Names
Exhibition History
1985
Wanden en Plafonds, Nijmeegs Museum "Commanderie van Sant Jan," Nijmegen; Vleeshal Grote Markt, Haarlem, 1985, no. 33.
1995
The Katalan Collection of Italian Drawings, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie and tour, 1995-1996, no. 20.
2014
The Poetry of Light - La poesia della luce: Venetian Drawings from the National Gallery of Art, Museo Correr, Venice, Venice, 2014 - 2015, no. 30.
2018
Drawing in Tintoretto’s Venice, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York; National Gallery of Art, Washington, 2018-2019, not in cat.
Bibliography
1958
Fenyö, Ivan. "Dessins italiens inconnus." Bulletin du Musée National Hongrois des Beaux Arts 13 (1958): 62.
1985
Wanden en Plafonds. Exh. cat. Nijmegen Museum, Nijmegen, 1985: no. 35.
1989
Fuhring, Peter. Design into Art: Drawings for Architecture and Ornament, The Lodewijk Houthakker Collection. London, 1989: 1, 263, no. 298.
1995
The Katalan Collection of Italian Drawings. Exh. cat. The Frances Lehman Loeb Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1995: 54.
1997
Matarrese, Ornella. "Appunti sulla formazione di Alessandro Maganza disegnatore e qualche aggiunta al catalogo di Giambattista il Giovane." Bulletin de l'Association des Historiens de l'Art italien 4 (1997-1998): 24-25, note 5.
1999
Paul Prouté S.A. Dessins-Estampes, Catalogue "Guercino". Paris, 1999: no. 2.
2000
Matarrese, Ornella. "I Maganza per il Palazzo del Podestà di Vicenza e un'ipotesi per il Palazzo Pretorio di Verona," Verona Illustrata 11 (2000): 23, note 2.
Burns, Howard et al.Guida a palazzo Barbaran da Porto. Aurora, Verona, 2000: 37.
2002
Matarrese, Ornella. "Precisioni sulla produzione grafica di Alessandro Maganza e della sua bottega," Calepino di Disegni, ed. by A. Forlani Tempesti (in press in 2000): 49-50, 65-66.
2017
Meijer, Bert W. Il disegno veneziano, 1580-1650 : ricostruzioni storico-artistiche. Florence, 2017: 255-257.
Watermarks
angel in a single circle with quatrefoil above, countermark of a box with "X" on left and trefoil above; compare Briquet 653, 659, 660, 662 (Ferrare, Syracuse, Salo, Udine 1583-1587)
Wikidata ID
Q64534029